Tariff debate at industrial commission cites Taylor on trusts
Representative Tayler opposes free list for iron products and warns against political trust control. Dr Gunton rebuts Atkinson freer trade. Taylor defends Dingley tariff and reciprocity, arguing tariff supports labor and national strength amid rising industrial power.
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Washington
Industrial Commission
Robert W. Taylor
Ohio
George G. Gunten
New York Institute of Social Economics
Taylor
Congress
United States
Livingston
Mr. Taylor
Mr. Clarke
United States Steel Corporation
Colonel Livingston
United States Steel Company
Babcock
Gunton
Edward Atkinson
Ing
Atkinson
Favor Tariff Revision by National Manufacturers
Detroit June. At its closing session the National Association of Manufacturers adopted a resolution urging a general convention to consider reciprocity treaties with foreign countries. The tariff revision policy calls for screening all legislation to protect only needed domestic production and avoid monopoly abuses, with U S tariffs on costly goods set to compensate domestic industries. The association re elected its officers and named Indianapolis as the next convention site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
National Association of Manufacturers
United States
Association
Indianapolis
Musical Unions
New York
Musical Mutual Protective Union
Vulcan, Mechanics’ and Enterprise
San Francisco
National Foundry Men's Association
Buffalo
J. G. Sadlier
Springfield
R. Moldenke
Thomas D. West
Sharpville
Cleveland
Akron
International Association of Machinists
Toronto
New York Central Railroad
Depew
New York Central
Consolidated Tobacco Company
Trenton
N. J
Morphine Overdose Claim Fatal for Kansas Man in Missouri
J C Frazier of Atchison Kansas, brother of a First National Bank cashier, died at Ensworth Hospital in St Joseph Missouri after taking an overdose of morphine last night. Police with coroner opened inquiry into circumstances of death.
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ST. Joseph, Mo
J. C. Frazier
Atchison, Kan
F. ‘Ase
Nak
Ensworth Tal
Untimely death hints at family tragedy in town
Police report details an overdose of morphine found on an unidentified man. The text recalls R. P. Frazier, a former credit manager for Steele & Walker Wholesale Grocery Co, who died by his own hand with morphine two years earlier in the same locale.
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R. P. Frazier
Steele & Walker
Couny
Beveridge in Russia Plans Four Month Study Tour
Mr Beveridge conducts extensive talks with M Witte Count Lamsdorff Poben dosteff and Prince Khilkoff in St Petersburg and will study sugar iron and cotton industries. He plans to visit Kiev and the Sheremetieff estate to examine agriculture and local self government as he travels European Russia for about four months.
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Petersburg
Beveridge
M. de Witte
Count Lamsdorff
M. Pobendosteff
The
Holy Synod
Prince Khilkoff
Count Sheremetieff
Zemstvo
European
Russia
Yerkes Plans American Style London Underground overhaul
London district railway approves Charles T. Yerkes electricity motive power plan to upgrade the underground. American engineered cars and stations to be installed. projections show two years of work pending Parliament consent. Yerkes says American engineers will lead, British concerns must adapt, and Morgan involvement hinted. Baltimore report adds Metropolitan District Traction formation details with Maryland Trust as financial agent.
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London
London District Railway
Charles T. Yerkes
J.S. Forbes
Mr. Yerkes
London Underground Railway
United States
Chicago
England
Great Britain
Yerkes
Robert W. Perks
M. P
Daily News
Baltimore
Méd
Metropolitan District Traction Company
Maryland Trust Company
Maryland Company
Acevives
Eye trouble cuts many at West Point entrance
At West Point on June 6 officials noted about per cent of candidates failed the entrance eye exam. Official medical board results were not yet reported. Afternoon drills featured tent pitching, battalion drill, and a dress parade closing public exhibitions. The furlough hop is set for tomorrow evening and the class departs Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Point
N. Y
Medical Examining Board
Military Academy
Baldwin Sails in the Air
Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, an arctic explorer, made a test ascent in a large gas balloon near Quincy on June 6 and accompanied by his cousin Samuel Baldwin. It was his first balloon trip as he prepares for a polar expedition and to pursue the fate of the late explorer Andre. The ascent traveled twenty miles southeast with a successful launch and landing.
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Quincy
Evelyn Briggs Baldwin
Samuel Baldwin
Andre
Baldwin
American engines and German tariffs spark new trade talks
Major Johnstone estimates Americans outpace others in coal while Alfred questions US chemical leadership, citing European luminaries. Berlin reports tariff shifts as Prussia abandons double duties, boosting US-German treaty prospects. Labor strife spreads from New York to Buffalo with machinists and foundry unions. a major tobacco firm forms in Trenton with $30 million capital.
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Johnstone
Sir Alfred
Burmah
Asia
Cort
Hall
Neilsen
Bessemer
Siemens
Martin
Gilchrist
Thomas
Robert S. Austin
Berlin
Prussia
United States
White
Germany
Foreign Office
Associated Press
McKinley
Gage
British and American press hail Wednesday banquet spirits
London papers praise cordial Anglo American exchange at the Chamber of Commerce dinner. St James Gazette urges hoisting the stars and stripes with the union jack on July 4. The Globe cautions that trade rivalry could spark trouble. Westminster Gazette envisions a friendly handshake turning into a robust contest. The Times notes focus on commerce over Derby or yacht racing. Griscom praises expanding shipping ties, hoping for flag beside Britain’s. Westminster Gazette sees the event as a step toward vigorous future competition.
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London
Chamber of Commerce
St. James
Empire
Cambridge
Oxford
Globe
Westminster Gazette
Chamberlain
London Chamber of Commerce
New York Chamber of Commerce
the Times
Lord Lansdowne
McKinley
Mr. Griscom
Great Britain
America
Cannibal Massacre of German Expedition on St Matthias Island
Berlin reports from New Guinea describe the mass killing of twelve members of a German South Sea expedition on St Matthias. Only Dr Heinroth survived, the rest fatally injured or eaten after islanders attacked while the party handled public safety items.
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Berlin
Tageblatt
New Guinea
St. Matthias
Heinroth
Colonial Zeitung
German Colonial Society
Herbertshoh
Dr. Mencken
Mereke
Mencka
Herr Caro
Dr. Heinroth
Midland Railway study finds American engines costlier to operate
London June 6 The Midland Railway reports six months of tests showing American locomotives cost 20 to 25 percent more in fuel and oil, 0 percent more in repairs, though they perform satisfactorily. Sir Ernest Paget and Sir Alfred Hickman defend British practice and note market limits for American engines.
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London
Midland Railway Company
Samuel W. Johnson
Daily Mail
Midland
Johnson
Ernest Paget
United States
Sir Alfred Hickman
British Iron Trade Association
George Hamilton
Pees Pees Locomotives
Egypt
Lord Cromer
Governor Samford Seriously Ill in Tuscaloosa
A Tuscaloosa dispatch reports Governor William J. Samford gravely ill at Prof. A A Person's home with hypertrophy of the heart. Mrs. Samford is at his bedside as doctors note no clear improvement. A special train is arranged to move him to Opelika.
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Birmingham
Ala
Age-Herald
Tuscaloosa
William J. Samford
A. A. Person
Samford
James T. Searcy
Opelika
Rockefeller funds three Negro scholarships at Teachers College
The Journal and Advertiser reports John D. Rockefeller made a unique gift to Columbia University Teachers College. He establishes three $59 scholarships restricted to Black students, with one winner nominated by Tuskegee Normal College, one by Spellman College, and one by Hampton Institute.
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New York
Journal and Advertiser
John D. Rockefeller
Teachers’ College
School of Pedagogy
Columbia University
Tuskegee Normal College
Tuskegee
Ala
Booker T.washington
Spellman Colored Seminary
Atlanta
Ham Institute
Virginia
Fressel
Lawson yacht Independence suffers steering gear jam during trial
Boston June 6 The Lawson yacht Independence on her second sail trial today experienced a minor steering gear jam that halted the test after about ninety minutes. The sailing had been excellent with a reach speed reported at a little over thirteen and a half knots.
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Boston
Mass
Lawson
Independence
Constitution spar repairs make two sections of buckled mast
Bristol June 6 The iron workers on the buckled mast of the Constitution advanced enough to split the spar into two sections. They will remove plates for several feet in the middle and up to three feet from the lower spreaders. Repairing warped plates proves harder and will take longer than expected.
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Bristol, R. L
Swan in Arlington Larceny Case Linked to Town Hall Fire
Middlesex county grand jury reports Swan former Arlington town clerk misappropriated over 2000 dollars and faced larceny counts. He was implicated in an earlier attempt to burn the Town Hall the night the town safe and records were robbed. Swan pleaded not guilty as bail was raised at the request of his defense counsel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Mass
Middlesex County Grand Jury
Roland D. Swan
Arlington
Swan
Grand Qr
Gue
Uncertainty in Manila Over Civil Government Plans
fragmentary Porto Rico decision sparks worry about Philippine revenues and constitutional fits. Importers seek refunds on duties. Taft, Chaffee plan civil control and native education, with Taft outlining provincial plans. Chaffee to tour islands. deaths and unit movements noted.
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Manila
Porto Rico
Congress
Philippines
United States
Washington
Taft
General Chaffee
Sumner
Wright
Ide
Crvite
Col. Goodrell
Judge Taft
Algalogo
Wray
Dousol
Albay
Reilley
Packling
Jess A
Boutell Warns on Philippines Tariff Start July 1
Representative Boutell of Chicago warns that if civil government in the Philippines begins July 1 without an enacted tariff schedule, duties on imports from the islands during the interim must be refunded. He suggests a December Congress session will promptly set tariff rates and argues the Constitution guides but does not compel Congress to ignore rights.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Boutell
Chicago
Philippines
Porto Rico
Congress
Senate
House
Supreme Court
Mr. Bryan
Bryan
New Civil Government Drafted for the Philippines
Washington June 6 The President and Secretary of War consider a new civil government for the Philippines with a Governor and legislative council. It would control civil affairs under war power, with the secretary of war as supreme authority. The plan contrasts with Spooner law and resembles early New Mexico governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Philippines
Archipelago
Legislative Council
The
New Mexico
Navy Lieutenant Townley Convicted at Manila Court Martial
Unofficial reports say Lieut. Richard H. Townley of the navy was found guilty by a Manila court martial on a charge linked to commissary irregularities. He was sentenced to dismissal from the service, with the sentence to take effect only after presidential approval.
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Washington
Richard H. Townley
Navy
Manila
Townley
War Department reports quarantined transport Kintuck at Nagasaki
The transport Kintuck is in quarantine at the Nagasaki harbor and will be held until the 15th inst due to a suspected plague aboard its crew.
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Washington
War Department
Nagasaki
War ships sail from Manila with volunteers homebound
War Department reports Kilpatrick left Manila May 25 and Ohio June 4 bound for San Francisco carrying volunteer troops home. The vessels depart directly from Manila and arrive in California, signaling a broad pullback of homebound American forces.
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Washington
War Department
Kilpatrick
Ohio
Manila
San Francisco
Dismissal of Dr Tubbs Sparks Wesleyan Heresy Debate
Trustess at Kansas Wesleyan University refuse to re elect Prof F D Tubbs to natural science chair over higher criticism accused of heresy. Students circulate protest petitions and demand public explanation while faculty defend Tubbs as aligned with Northwestern and Methodist seminaries, amid turmoil at Salina campus.
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Salina
Kan
Kansas Wesleyan University
F. D. Tubbs
George A. Parrill
Tubbs
W. D. Schermerhorn
Lincoln
Daniel McGuerk
Dr. Tubbs
Northwestern University
Therincipal Methodist Theological Schools
H. Gray Amhurst
Concordia
Missionary Union roll call notes China unrest impact
Clifton Springs New York June 6 The National Missionary Union held its annual roll call with over a hundred missionaries listed. Sixty missionaries attended from the China field due to Boxer troubles driving many from duty. Rev Rockwell Clancy of Indiana led the devotional service. President J T Gracey urged missionaries to act as peacemakers in China.
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Clifton Springs
N. Y
National Missionary Union
China Field
Rockwell Clancy
Indiana
J. T. Gracey
China
People s Church of America Incorporation Granted
Articles of incorporation for the People's Church of America were granted in Springfield to extend the Chicago church into a national organization. Rev. H. W. Thomas leads the Chicago parent body with limited jurisdiction over other congregations. first branches planned for Duluth Minnesota and the Black Hills region of South Dakota. Existing branches include Milwaukee and others.
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Chicago
People's Church of America
Springfield
People’s Church
H. W. Thomas
Duluth
Minn
Black Hills
South Dakota
Milwaukee
Minnesota Diocesan Council elects coadjutor bishop
In Winona Minnesota on June Right Rev Samuel Edsall D D of Fargo missionary bishop of North Dakota was elected bishop coadjutor on the first formal ballot by the Minnesota Diocesan Council Episcopalians Dr Rainsford of New York received thirty four votes Dr Nichols of New York twenty eight Dr Rollitt of Red Wing two and Archdeacon Haupt of Minnesota four
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Winona
Minn
Samuel Edsall
D. D
Fargo
North Dakota
Minnesota Diocesan Council
Episcopalians
Rainsford
New York
Nichols
Rollitt
Red Wing
Archdeacon Haupt
Minnesota
Milwaukee congressman Otjen injured in trolley crash
Theobald Otjen and his private secretary Nathaniel Green were struck by an electric trolley car in Milwaukee this afternoon while in a buggy. Physicians say Otjen and Green sustained non serious injuries and hope to be about soon.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Theobald Otjen
Nathaniel Green
Otjen
Ninety Indiana Coal Mines Form Consolidated Company
About ninety bituminous coal operators in Indiana unify to form the Consolidated Coal Company of Indiana, owning 129 mines. Capital stock is ten million dollars, with cash paid for all properties and no requirement to accept stock. Chicago and Indianapolis capitalists back the deal, aiming for centralized, better managed production and marketing while not forcing small operators out. The agreement, reached in Washington, Indiana, concludes a years long push for greater market discipline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Washington, Ind
Indiana
John 8. Bays
Sullivan
Washington
Consolidated Coal Company of Indiana
Chicago
Indianapolis
Hartford City Gas Waste Rumors Declared Baseless
State Supervisor Leach visits Hartford City to investigate alleged natural gas waste in the Hartford City oil field. He finds no waste or unlawful activity, noting no complaints from manufacturers or residents and stating reports are mischievous or without foundation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Kokomo
Ind
Hartford City
Leach
Hardford City
City
Indiana Druggists Convene Second Day Programs
Muinicie Indiana June 6 Druggists of Indiana open the second day of their convention at 4 o clock this morning in the courtroom. Papers on preventive medication and duties in emergencies were read by Staulhuth of Columbus and W O Gross of Fort Wayne. J Newton Roe of Valparaiso explained life saving bandage techniques and poisoning responses as part of the program.
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Indianapolis
Municie
Ind
Indiana Pharmaceutical Association
Staulhuth
Columbus
W. O. Gross
Fort Wayne
J. Newton Roe
Valparaiso
I. N. Helms
Indianapolia
Indianapolis Association of Druggists
Committee On Trades
Veetere Cay
Bruno Knoefel
George D. Timmons
Ne Seber
A. Timberlake
Indiana Association
Indiana
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South Seas
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Death's Door
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Alabama
J. D. Rockefeller
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MR. Boutell
Kintuck
People’s Church Incorporated
Coal Control
Consolidated Company
Indiana Field
Marion Law College
Indiana Druggists’ Meeting
MR. Leach
Mortford
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